Built In at the Neutra VDL House

Exhibition catalog for "Built In," a group exhibition of site-specific works from 32 Los Angeles-area creative practices, responding to the built-in architectural and historic elements of the Neutra VDL House, the Los Angeles home of Austrian-American architect Richard Neutra. "Built In" celebrates the possibilities inherent to residential programming by inviting exhibition participants to dialogue with various structures intrinsic to the residence. Built-ins are the unmoving opposites of freestanding furniture. Designed as permanent elements of the interior architecture of a home, they whisper of both universal and personalized programmatic intention long after their moveable siblings have been swapped-out, updated, or relegated to storage. Invitations to respond to these sites and phenomena that elegantly punctuate the VDL House have prompted a collection of alternately present and receding works, variously arranged among, sensitive towards, fitted atop, responsive to, informed by, e